Lynn Royster Ph.D is a professor at DePaul University. She is the Director of the Chronic Illness Initiative (CII) in the School for New Learning. Dr. Royster shares some tips about getting assistance while in college. CII provides support services for students needing minimal accommodations due to the onset of illness or hospitalization. Dr. Royster also sits on the boards of several health organizations and enjoys writing.
Audio aired in 2008 for The National Chronic Illness Awareness Week’s Online Seminars. NICIAW provides Online Seminars M-F once a year in September on BlogTalk Radio. NICIAW founded by Lisa Copen, founder of Rest Ministries. IDA has been thrilled to participate in NICIAW, help spread the word about it and/or be a guest speaker since its birth.
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My 20 yr old son has chronic lyme disease which flairs up periodically. He was fine going into freshman yr of college and excelled beyond anyone’s expectations and kept his illness quiet. At the start of sophmore year his treatment was deminished since he was doing so well and several months he started to have new complications with his heart, blood pressure, along with the old fatigue, vomiting, etc. He had to curtail his activities, ended up hospitalized for a few days and still wanted to finish the year even though he dropped a class and his grades suffered. Upon returning after the summer he became ostracized by the whole college community, adviser professsors and students. His once promising career is in a shambles and he has to transfer to a new school just to survive. Has anyone else experience anything like this? I am baffled that this could happen. He still maintained a 3.1 GPA even with the illness and missed time due to the hospital visits and doctor visits and yet he was taken down 10pts on one grade because he missed 3 classes due to being in the hospital. I don’t know how to help him. Any advice would be helpful. Thank you and Merry Christmas to all. Your organization sounds like a much needed group!